What I am to share here is not something I heard, instead what my wife and I experienced about blood donation. My wife was to have hysterectomy because of a lump in her uterus. Her doctor advised that we need to get at least four bags of her blood type for transfusion during surgery. Her blood type is "B" and there was not enough to buy from blood banks. I had to look for donors like making calls to a military academy and large companies to ask for possible donors. Unfortunately, it was too immediate and they did not have enough time to ask people who had the same blood type who are willing to donate. The day before the surgery, the Red Cross and a hospital notified me that there were type "B" donations and two bags from each of them! Another good thing was learning that I have nephews who had the same blood type. Our family on my side commonly had type "O" blood. Just to make sure we had more than four bags, my nephews donated another two bags. All the donations were kept by the Medical Technicians department of the hospital. The cost of the blood from the Red Cross and hospital was $20.00 per bag. The condition with the hospital where my wife was to be operated on is for them to pay me back the same amount for any blood that would not be used.  Read More . . .

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